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Eris Drew
High Priestess of the Motherbeat. T4T.
Eris Drew is a DJ, producer and trans ecstatic from Chicago. She runs the T4T LUV NRG recording label with her loving b2b partner Octo Octa from a log cabin in New Hampshire. Together, they are BBC Radio 1 residents for the 2020 Spring/Summer season. Eris is a recording artist for her own label, Interdimensional Transmissions (Detroit) and Naive Records (Lisbon). She conducts the Psychedelic Rites of the Motherbeat with her friends at Pittsburgh's Hot Mass and at Room 4 Resistance in Berlin.
Eris has been playing and programming keyboards since she was a child. A long-time resident at Chicago's Smart Bar and DJ for the Bunker NY, she starting mixing records in 1994 at the age of 18. Her experiences as a musician and dancer showed her that rave is a powerful apparatus which can be used to transform individual lives and communities. In an effort to contextualize the rave experience, Eris gives talks around the world on the connections between dance music culture and other ecstatic traditions such as shamanism. In addition, she is an advocate for trans/non-binary/queer people and mentors aspiring DJs and electronic musicians.
When Eris was 18 she had an intensely disruptive spiritual awakening. House music cracked her open and revealed a mystery contained within sound. This "Motherbeat"—as she would call it—was first beheld by Eris following a rave in 1994 at Chicago's Oak Street Theater. She has helped Eris to heal, create art and find her friends for over 23 years. Motherbeat is a fundamental primordial pulsation; a whispering geometric wind with the power to heal; the archetype of a goddess ascending. She is there to remind us that: I. Ritual dance music has been here since the beginning, before historical time. II. Each of us is made for better things than the cultural download we receive provides. III. We can use the music as a technology to unlock our bodies, dissolve boundaries and models, and find each other.


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I'm hosting Dune 2 in Pro Tools. For some reason, every time I create a patch and go to save my work, Pro Tools crashes.
I have the most recent version of Dune 2 AAX, and use it frequently. Except for this issue, it works fine.
I can't figure out what is causing the issue. The only thing I have open in the session is Dune 2 on an instrument track in PT. No other plugins are being used. I start with an Init Patch, create something, and save, and PT crashes and auto-reboots. If I make ANY edit at all to a patch and try to save, same thing. The odd thing is, I don't lose what I saved. Once PT reboots, and I reopen Dune 2, whatever I just tried to save IS saved, so my work isn't being lost. But its damn annoying to make and save an edit and then have to go through reboot each time I do.
We will try to reproduce the issue.
However, does the crash occur when you just create new session, insert DUNE 2, and just save (without any edit)?
Marcin wrote: We will try to reproduce the issue.
No, if I create a session, insert Dune 2 and just call up a patch and play or record something, and then save the session in Pro Tools, nothing crashes. Its only when I try to save an edit in Dune 2 itself that it crashes Pro Tools and it auto reboots.
And, it doesn't do that if I insert Dune 2 VST version in Reason, for example. That seems to work just fine. The issue seems to be with the AAX version ins Pro Tools (version 2018.7).
We have now tested this on multiple PCs running Pro Tools 2018.7, but so far we could not reproduce this issue anywhere.
Note that the actual save code is practically identical for saving a session and saving a patch (and if I understood you correctly, it actually does save properly in both cases). So this looks like some rather exotic bug, probably related to something entirely different and not the save procedure itself. Anyway since we cannot reproduce the issue, we'll contact you via PM or email. Probably the only way to fix this issue will be with your cooperation, e.g. we can build a version which writes a log file that gives us a better idea of what exactly goes wrong.
Richard wrote: We have now tested this on multiple PCs running Pro Tools 2018.7, but so far we could not reproduce this issue anywhere.
That would be fine with me. Just let me know what you need from me. And thank you!
If a PM or email was sent to me regarding this, I have not seen it.
I'm having the same issue again with Dune 3. Its fine if I create a patch from scratch. But if I edit any existing patch and try to save it or re-save it, 80% of the time it crashes Pro Tools. I'm running PT 2018.10 - Win 10 64bit.
I posted on this issue a while back. First it cropped up with Dune 2. Now I'm having the very same issue with Dune 3. For whatever reason, when I'm hosting D3 in Pro Tools (PT 2012.12, Win-10 64bit), and I edit a patch or even create one from scratch, when I go to save it, PT crashes and reboots. When I reopen D3, the patch I saved is in the right place and I can load it in.
I would suspect the fix is similar to what you all suggested for the issue with D2, but I didn't want to do anything until hearing from you guys on this.
It does not happen if I host D3 as VST in Reason, or for that matter, in PT as VST hosted in Blue Cat Audio Patchwork. It seems to be the AAX version that has the issue.
Please advise. Its getting annoying. I prefer to do all my patch design using Pro Tools as host for a variety of reasons. But I'm waving to work around it because of this problem.
We finally managed to reproduce the issue. It is fixed in v3.05, available in the Download area.
Richard wrote: We finally managed to reproduce the issue. It is fixed in v3.05, available in the Download area.
Thank you so much. I'll grab it over the weekend and let you know if I run into the issue any more.
Appreciate your getting this fixed.
Downloaded the update and now it seems to work well. Thanks for fixing this issue!


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18 Movies Like Circle
Fifty people come to in a chamber that is dark, organised in two concentric circles around a domed structure that is black. Alarms will go off if any of them try to move from the platforms assigned to them or make contact with any of the others. When someone disobeys the warning and moves away from the formation, they are instantly killed by a beam coming from the dome, and their bodies are removed as swiftly as possible.
A man tries to reassure the others as they are in a state of panic, but the device takes his life in the middle of his sentence. After that, a new individual is slain around once every two minutes. The group comes to the conclusion, after several people have passed away, that the technology in the room enables them to use hand signals to vote for who will pass away, while arrows on the floor indicate each person their own vote but not the votes of others. They make an effort to avoid participating in the vote, but after two minutes, a person is picked at random to be executed.
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Report: Seminoles make billions; still seek government grants
Nov 29, 2007 at 7:26 PM Nov 29, 2007 at 7:26 PM
The Seminole Tribe of Florida has touted publicly that the billions it makes off gambling has helped it become self-sufficient, but a newspaper investigation shows that it is still pulling in millions of dollars in federal government grants while claiming financial limitations.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, in a story published Thursday, detailed numerous examples of the tribe claiming financial constraints when it sought federal help, like when it asked for thousands of dollars to pay for new officers, an airboat and computers for its police department � all of it needed because its casinos were drawing bigger crowds.
The tribe also sent a $123,130 bill to the Federal Emergency Management Agency after members evacuated to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood ahead of Hurricane Frances in 2004. Records show the guests rang up charges for 150 rooms, plus movies, alcohol, valet parking and expensive meals at the hotel, which the tribe owns. After rejecting initial claims, FEMA eventually paid $103,864.
In a five-year period ending in 2005, the tribe took in more than $3.2 billion in revenues while collecting $80 million in government aid, according to the tribe's annual audits. The tribe's almost 3,400 members each receive $120,000 annually from its enterprises.
Seminole Tribal Council member Max Osceola Jr. defended the grants, telling the Sun-Sentinel that the tribe is eligible like all other tribes whether "you have a penny in your pocket or a dollar in your pocket."
The Seminoles, like most tribes, also receive grants based on policies and treaties established with the federal government for needs such as health care and education and a tribe's financial strength is not considered.
"The tribes are absolutely determined that funding for their programs by the United States is not based on their economic position but is based on a treaty and statutory and trust responsibilities," said George Skibine, a deputy assistant secretary over Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. "I'm not going to argue with that, but they think there is this obligation."
And the Seminoles are not unique. The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, which operates a resort and casino west of Miami, spent $9.4 million in government aid in 2005. In Connecticut, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe combined spent $5.9 million in grants that year, as their Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun hotel and casino took in an estimated $2.3 billion, according to the Indian Gaming Industry Report.
Tribes are required to report how their grants were spent to the federal government. The Seminoles created their own department in fiscal year 2005 to oversee government grants.
The Seminoles' government reports show:
� That the U.S. Department of Justice gave the tribe $330,902 in 2005 after the Seminole Police Department reported a surge in calls because of growing crowds at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casinos in Hollywood and Tampa. The grant paid for two new officers, 112 laptops and other computer equipment.
� That in 2006, another Justice Department grant helped pay for a $39,000 airboat for the Seminole police. The tribe cited police "budget restraints" in its grant application.
� That the tribe's Water Resources Management Department received $20,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2006 to mark high-water levels on its reservations. "The tribe has been working unsuccessfully to identify resources to fund the development of this baseline data," the May 12 application said.
� That during the same month, the tribe applied to the Department of Justice and received $102,144 for the airboat and four unmarked police vehicles, plus radios and laptops. The addition of four child- and elder-abuse investigators was "causing a strain on the police budget," the tribe said in its application.
� That this year, when the tribe completed a $965 million deal to buy the Hard Rock International chain of hotels and cafes, it sought several grants, including almost $200,000 for the establishment of tribal courts.
Gilbert Moore, a Justice Department spokesman, said the applications to his department are legitimate.
"Need has never been a consideration for our grants," he said. Some cities, for instance, "are pretty well-to-do, but we wouldn't discriminate against those communities."
After the busy 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, FEMA reimbursed the Seminoles a total of $2.5 million for expenses for which any government would be entitled, such as debris removal. FEMA also paid the cost of moving the tribe's aircraft away from approaching storms, records show.
After the Frances evacuation, FEMA initially rejected the Seminoles' Hard Rock claim, finding the costs "beyond what would be considered reasonable," records show. FEMA reversed course three times over the following year, but in September 2006 agreed to pay, based on a letter from the tribe's emergency management planner saying the Hard Rock is a "shelter for the tribe's elderly and special needs population."
The guests included people who were neither old nor disabled. But FEMA spokesman Josh Wilson said that "once the Seminole Tribe showed FEMA correspondence that indicated the (casino resort) was listed in the emergency plan as a temporary emergency shelter, we made the funds available."
FEMA plans to review all the tribe's receipts as part of its audit and could require repayment of some or all of the money, Wilson said.
Seminole Tribe spokesman Gary Bitner told The Associated Press on Thursday that the tribe is eligible for those grants because they are a sovereign government.
"These commitments stand regardless of how successful the tribe is," Bitner said.


I used to be a Christmas tree Nazi. I really did. When Number 1 son was just a little bloke, I would climb the step-stool to hang the lights and then he would cheerfully loop all his favourite ornaments around the branches he could reach. The lower branches would be a festive cacophony, while the top remained tastefully minimal.
There would be mutual congratulation and plentiful admiration. And then, as soon as he was in bed, I would begin to rearrange, relocate and reduce. Every year. Without fail. On the first Saturday of December.
Today, when Dr Dad and I went down to select the tree from the local farm, Mr 16 didn't want to come. He can't cope with watching the ceremonial chopping down of the tree. It makes his heart ache to think that this glorious green-scented beauty must sacrifice four years of development for our Yule-time pleasure. He can't watch.
So when I finally collected the dusty boxes marked 'Super Fragile' from the shed, it was only child number three, Girlchild — Miss 14, who was keen to be part of the annual decorating ritual.
Like me, she revels in the rediscovery of the treasures that have been boxed away all year. But she's not systematic or ordered about it. She bounced joyfully between the boxes and the tree, leaving a trail of bubble-wrap in her wake, singing as she went or chatting incessantly over the soundtrack of the cheesy Christmas movie I had chosen. I just sat and watched.
Number one son is already 31 years old and long gone. Mr 16 is a planet who spins in his own solar system. My baby girl is already a teenager. I didn't want to do anything to break the spell.
Finally, as she appraised her handiwork, she expressed how glad that she feels that we don't have one of those catalogue trees made of plastic. Or worse, one like the silver tinsel and wire thing that Grandma has because pine needles make too much mess. Or a perfectly co-ordinated affair, each year a different matching pair of colours: red and gold, green and silver, pink and blue. Like a department store. I always admire those glamorous creations; they're so thoughtfully designed and perfectly balanced. But I too love our mismatched tree. It speaks of my life.
Whenever I have travelled, since my first overseas trip, I have collected ornaments for the tree. A Tiffany's box from New York, pandas from China, an embroidered royal tea cup from London, Pinocchio from Milan, satin balls from Beijing, beaded beauties from East Africa, silk animals from Malaysia and Korea, hand-painted balls from Paris and Washington, angels from Indonesia. Every one of them tells its own story.
Then there are all the gifts I have received over the years. Irreplaceable hand-made jewels, delicate glass baubles that belie the enduring strength of true friendship, and lovingly chosen ornaments that reflect how well others know me... like the frankfurt Karin brought me from Germany. Impossible not to smile.
So this year I think I should apologise to Number 1 son for all those years of insulting his aesthetics. It really would have been magic if all three of them had been here to trim the tree together.
Please tell the lovely girl child that H and L search every year for her little Christmas Fairy/Angel to put on top of the tree before any other decorations go up.
You have trained them well.
Lovely piece and great pics. I feel the same about my ornaments - they all tell a story. I will post pics when my tree goes up which isn't until around the 23rd of December.
I"ll look forward to seeing what I'm sure are some stunning decorations, Mary Anne, and reading your beautiful accompanying text. You write so well.
I didn't photograph my VERY favourite... a nativity scene of little corn dolls I bought in Kenya. Made at a local church to raise money for the orphanage. Baby Jesus is like a tiny swaddled black tadpole. Would you like me to post a pic?
What a lovely story! Our tree is pretty much a jumble too, including "Creepy Santa," a strange little hand-stitched mailbox, and paper angels with pipe-cleaner wings, made by our daughter in kindergarten. Now I'm really looking forward to getting into that box of memories!
Thank you, Karen. Our version of your Creepy Santa would be Scary Clown ... my daughter wouldn't let me photograph it. I'm so glad that my post resonated with you.
I was obsessive about the tree for years...not so much in making sure it was perfect, but making sure that every spot was completely filled...it was awe inspiring and slightly insane. I stopped last year and just have a little table top tree. That I cram full of ornaments. I can't help myself.


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Randalstown Road, Antrim, Antrim, BT41 4LH, United Kingdom
Clotworthy Arts Centre was built in the 1840s as a coach house and stables for Antrim Castle. It was once the centre of a thriving farm and consists of an enclosed central courtyard flanked by two wings built in a neo-Tudor style. It has been restored as an arts...
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751 Antrim Road, Templepatrick, County Antrim, BT39 0AP, United Kingdom
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Antrim Road, Belfast, BT36 7PN, United Kingdom
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Q: Oracle to Postgres Statement Migration I'm trying to port over some statements from Oracle to Postgres.
One specific one that I have a hard time even understanding on the Oracle side is this:
rating_scheme_oid NUMBER;
rs_cnt number;

From what I can understand it seems like these are just defining variables, so I figured I could translate that to this:
CREATE TYPE rating_scheme_oid NUMERIC;
CREATE TYPE rs_cnt NUMERIC;

However this doesn't seem to work:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "NUMERIC"
If anyone with expertise in this area could describe what these are doing and a possible solution, that'd be great.
Here's the full context (this is the working Oracle statement):
        DECLARE
        CURSOR update_cursor
        IS
        SELECT oid, subscription_id, configuration_oid
        FROM scope
        WHERE subscription_id != 1 and subclass_type = 'W' and configuration_oid is not null;

        TYPE type
        IS
        TABLE OF update_cursor%ROWTYPE;
        update_array type;

        rating_scheme_oid NUMBER;
        rs_cnt number;

        BEGIN
        OPEN update_cursor;
        LOOP
        FETCH update_cursor BULK COLLECT INTO update_array LIMIT 1000;
        FOR i IN 1 .. update_array.COUNT LOOP

        BEGIN
        select count(*) into rs_cnt from workspace_config where workspace_oid = update_array(i).oid and OBJECTIVE_STATE_SCHEME_OID is null;
        IF rs_cnt = 1
        THEN

        SELECT OID_SEQ.nextval into rating_scheme_oid from DUAL;

        INSERT INTO RATING_SCHEME (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, VERSION, NAME, CREATION_DATE, WORKSPACE_OID, UUID)
        VALUES (rating_scheme_oid, update_array(i).subscription_id, 1, null, SYSDATE, update_array(i).oid, sys_guid());

        UPDATE WORKSPACE_CONFIG set OBJECTIVE_STATE_SCHEME_OID = rating_scheme_oid where oid = update_array(i).configuration_oid;

        INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
        VALUES (OID_SEQ.nextval, update_array(i).subscription_id, update_array(i).oid, 1, SYSDATE, rating_scheme_oid, 'Defined', 0, sys_guid());

        INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
        VALUES (OID_SEQ.nextval, update_array(i).subscription_id, update_array(i).oid, 1, SYSDATE, rating_scheme_oid, 'Committed', 1, sys_guid());

        INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
        VALUES (OID_SEQ.nextval, update_array(i).subscription_id, update_array(i).oid, 1, SYSDATE, rating_scheme_oid, 'In-Progress', 2, sys_guid());

        INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
        VALUES (OID_SEQ.nextval, update_array(i).subscription_id, update_array(i).oid, 1, SYSDATE, rating_scheme_oid, 'Measuring', 3, sys_guid());

        INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
        VALUES (OID_SEQ.nextval, update_array(i).subscription_id, update_array(i).oid, 1, SYSDATE, rating_scheme_oid, 'Achieved', 4, sys_guid());

        INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
        VALUES (OID_SEQ.nextval, update_array(i).subscription_id, update_array(i).oid, 1, SYSDATE, rating_scheme_oid, 'Closed', 5, sys_guid());

        END IF;

        END;
        END LOOP;
        COMMIT;
        EXIT WHEN update_cursor%NOTFOUND;
        END LOOP;
        CLOSE update_cursor;
        END;

A: A direct replacement of the code to PL/pgSQL would be something like this.
The following is (obviously not) tested and may contain typos, so you need to work out the details from here.  But it should get you started.
DECLARE
  l_oid_array int[];
  l_subscription_id_array int[];
  l_config_oid_array int[];

  l_rating_scheme_oid int;
  l_cnt bigint;
BEGIN
  SELECT array_agg(oid order by oid),
         array_agg(subscription_id order by oid),
         array_agg(configuration_oid order by oid)
     into l_oid_array, l_subscription_id_array, l_config_oid_array
  FROM scope
  WHERE subscription_id <> 1
    and subclass_type = 'W'
    and configuration_oid is not null;

  FOR i IN 1 .. cardinality(l_oid_array) LOOP

    select count(*) into l_cnt
    from workspace_config
    where workspace_oid = workspace_oid = l_oid_array[i]
      and OBJECTIVE_STATE_SCHEME_OID is null;

    IF l_cnt = 1 THEN
    THEN

      l_rating_scheme_oid := nextval('oid_seq');

      INSERT INTO RATING_SCHEME (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, VERSION, NAME, CREATION_DATE, WORKSPACE_OID, UUID)
      VALUES (rating_scheme_oid, l_subscription_id_array[i], 1, null, current_date, l_oid_array[i], uuid_generate_v4());

      UPDATE WORKSPACE_CONFIG set OBJECTIVE_STATE_SCHEME_OID = rating_scheme_oid where oid = l_config_oid_array[i];

      INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
      VALUES (nextval('oid_seq'), l_subscription_id_array[i], l_oid_array[i], 1, current_date, l_rating_scheme_oid, 'Defined', 0, uuid_generate_v4());

      INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
      VALUES (nextval('oid_seq'), l_subscription_id_array[i], l_oid_array[i], 1, current_date, l_rating_scheme_oid, 'Committed', 1, uuid_generate_v4());

      INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
      VALUES (nextval('oid_seq'), l_subscription_id_array[i], l_oid_array[i], 1, current_date, l_rating_scheme_oid, 'In-Progress', 2, uuid_generate_v4());

      INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
      VALUES (nextval('oid_seq'), l_subscription_id_array[i], l_oid_array[i], 1, current_date, l_rating_scheme_oid, 'Measuring', 3, uuid_generate_v4());

      INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
      VALUES (nextval('oid_seq'), l_subscription_id_array[i], l_oid_array[i], 1, current_date, l_rating_scheme_oid, 'Achieved', 4, uuid_generate_v4());

      INSERT INTO RATING (OID, SUBSCRIPTION_ID, WORKSPACE_OID, VERSION, CREATION_DATE, RATING_SCHEME_OID, NAME, ORDINAL_VALUE, UUID)
      VALUES (nextval('oid_seq'), l_subscription_id_array[i], l_oid_array[i], 1, current_date, l_rating_scheme_oid, 'Closed', 5, uuid_generate_v4());
    END IF;

  END LOOP;

END;

To get the uuid_generate_v4() function you need to install the uuid-ossp extension
Doing things in loops like that is usually the least efficient way (in Oracle and Postgres). More often than not, a simple insert into select ... is a lot more efficient

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St.George's is the Roman Catholic cathedral in the Archdiocese of Southwark, south London. Opened in 1848, it was designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Pugin was the first person to be married in the Cathedral on 10 August 1848 to his third wife Jane. Interior fittings were later added by Herbert Gribble, the architect of the Brompton Oratory. The Cathedral was badly bombed in 1941 and the rebuilt Cathedral was opened in 1958. Design published in The Building News, May 30th 1879.


It's not easy to recover from some of the most severe army wounds. But that is exactly what Sam Cila – an American army veteran – did. And not only did he work hard on his tremendous recovery, he decided to inspire kids in his son Evan's school with his tale as well.
After the attacks on 9/11, Cila joined the NY National Guard and was sent out to Iraq the following month with the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry Regiment. Towards the end of his time there however, he was badly injured while on patrol outside the Green Zone, Baghdad, from an IED blast. His entire left side was blown out and it took him three years to fight – and win – the hardest battle of his life; the recovery. He worked extremely hard to guard against not having an amputation, that, at the time, seemed like the only option. He did however, ultimately loss his left arm from the elbow down but even that didn't deter him.
Cila wanted to inspire the children in his son's school at Aquebogue. He wanted them to know about all the new technologies and scientific developments available, showing them that even in the midst of apparent despair, there is always room for hope. As well, this Veteran's Day he ran in the Riverfront24 endurance run, raising money for a local veteran's services organization.
It seems that it is not just animals in distress who benefit from being cared for by humans. In fact, one could argue that it is the oft-abused humans who are gaining more benefit from their care for animals. Gentle Barn – a Santa Clarita farm spanning six acres – has seen many of these miracles. Indeed, people have healed themselves by working or volunteering at the farm that houses abused cows, goats, horses and pigs.
Perhaps the abused adults and youngsters relate to these animals because they were also once threatened in some very disturbing way. Or perhaps the unconditional love given by the animals to the people who have more often than not been the victim of terrible abuse, gives them hope again. Either way, both are doing well.
If one goat can do that for one person, just think how many other animals can help people. Those individuals who suffer from any kind of mental trauma, or abuse, where no care facility can help them and even special drugs start to fail after some time, need a place like Gentle Barn to really get their spirit back. Mejia-Schnaufer is one case in many at the Gentle Barn that shows just how much animals can give to people who are struggling when there is no hope left and they feel like everyone else has given up on them and life is no longer worth living. Keep it simple: let the animals do their jobs.


Revitalise and renew your skin with these Japanese skincare ingredients.
A staple in the diet of the Japanese people, green tea is a great antioxidant that works for your entire body and improves cardiovascular health when ingested. When it comes to skincare, it is a popular antioxidant that is commonly used to strengthen skin against environmental damage.
Try Boscia Green Tea Oil-Free Moisturizer ($56 for 50g), a lightweight moisturiser which protects the skin against free radicals. In addition, it also contains burdock root to help absorb excess oil and regulate sebum production so your complexion remains well-balanced, matte and hydrated.
Commonly found in hydrating skincare ingredients thanks to its ability to support the production of hyaluronic acid within skin cells, rice extract also helps to calm inflammation.
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Try Snow Fox Skincare Japanese Cherry Blossom & White Tea Smoothing Mask (about $47 for five pieces), which infuses skin with its restorative goodness to correct dullness and improve skin texture over time. This handy sheet mask is also fortified with white tea extract (another antioxidant) and hyaluronic acid to lock in moisture and protect it from dryness.
An ingredient that geishas swore by to protect and nourish their skin and hair, camellia oil remains a popular ingredient in Japanese skincare products for its ability to improve skin elasticity and neutralise redness.
Try Tatcha Gold Camellia Beauty Oil ($135 for 30ml), which is a blend of camellia seed oil, vitamin E, algae extract, rice germ oil and glycerin. When applied onto skin, it instantly improves skin elasticity and reinforces skin's barrier layer, thanks to the high content of essential fatty acids. Powerful antioxidants also mop up free radical damage and strengthen skin. Plus, it also has tiny golden flakes which break up upon application and melds seamlessly into skin for a subtle gleam.
A prized herb which is ingested to boost vitality in the body, Reishi mushrooms are known for their high antioxidant content.
To reap the optimal benefits of this precious ingredient, try Shiseido Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate ($110 for 30ml). Designed to be a booster serum which maximises all the subsequent products applied, it sets the foundation for healthy skin, thanks to its ImuGeneration Technology. Harnessing the antioxidant properties of Reishi mushrooms and Iris root, this powerful compound equips skincare to be able to defend itself against oxidative damage for younger-looking skin.
Protect your skin with Thann Shiso Revitalizing Fluid ($55 for 40g). Formulated for oily, acne-prone skin, this lightweight fluid moisturiser deeply replenishes skin with moisture while shielding it from free radical damage. Meanwhile, it is also formulated with horse chestnut seed to reduce redness and soothe inflammation for a clarified and supple complexion.


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Norwegian health students head to Ara
Ara Institute of Canterbury has formed a partnership with Molde University College in Norway, creating exchange opportunities for staff and students to experience practices, facilities and health sector collaboration.
Norwegian student Jorun Tømte
Ara formed the partnership for staff and students from New Zealand and Norway to study abroad as part of an internationalisation programme using International Education Growth Fund (IEGF) funding provided by ENZ.
Jorun Tømte was one of the first Norwegian nursing students to take up a semester-long study abroad experience at Ara during the second semester of 2017.
"I didn't really know too much about New Zealand, but I knew that the sociocultural norms and the health sectors were somewhat similar," she said.
"My teachers were amazing. The lectures were diverse, which gave us the opportunity to acquire information in multiple ways."
Ara has developed relationships with more than 20 institutes in Asia and 14 institutes in Europe, including Molde University College and the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in Norway. Ara also has institutional relationships in North America, India and Australia.
In mid-2018, Ara's nursing, midwifery and medical imaging students will move into the city's new Te Papa Hauora/Health Precinct. The world-class hub contains the Health Research Education Facility, a $70 million building that will be home to more than 1,000 Ara students as well as Canterbury District Health Board staff and University of Canterbury researchers.
The quality of Ara's graduates is impressive. Ara's medical imaging students were the first in the world to train on virtual reality platforms, and its nursing students have one of the highest pass rates and employment rates in New Zealand.
Each year, Ara welcomes some 1,800 international students from 90 countries.
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The Black Twigs North Fork Flyer CD
First CD by this now well-known group, raw edged takes on Appalachia, old time, etc. Completely authentic.
The Black Twigs represents the continued persistence of a type of Appalachian folk music that has come and gone from the popular radar over the years, but has never really disappeared from the band's Southwest Virginia home. The songs on "North Fork Flyer" are mostly traditional numbers (with a few originals sprinkled in) that form the backbone of a century-old tradition - the music of bonfires, front porches, coal miner's festivals, and informal gatherings. Over the years, "mountain ragas" (as the group calls them) like "Angelina Baker," "Spike Driver's Blues," "Poor Boy Long Ways From Home" and "Sail Away Ladies" have been recorded, performed, and revised continually by luminaries such as Bukka White, Mississippi John Hurt, John Fahey, Bob Wills, Holy Modal Rounders, New Lost City Ramblers, etc, etc - a who's who of true American artistry. Recorded live to DAT on front porches and in family rooms, "North Fork Flyer" blends fiddle blues, sinewy guitar and the drone and twitch of fretless clawhammer banjo with the band's rough-around-the-edges but warm harmonies. Played to the accompaniment of night insects, passing trains, and the noise of wandering children, the music retains the charm of tradition but is free of fake antiquarianism and nostalgia - regardless of age, the music is just as relevant today as it was 100 years ago and the band plays it like they mean it. The band name comes from the oldest, most crotchety apple variety in the orchard that fiddler Ralph Berrier's family maintains along the musically fertile Virginia-North Carolina line. 17 Tracks, 50 Minutes.


Next time you need a soothing, healing and healthy hot drink to fuel your body and mind, try one of these incredibly easy apple cider vinegar detox teas.
Cover ginger with boiling water.
Add apple cider vinegar and mix to combine.
Cover chamomile with boiling water.
Cover green tea with boiling water.


Tesla systems are in the project of making 30 specialized websites in the field of electrical engineering. This website is one of those sites.
The time limit for implementation of this work is - June 2014.
The aim of the project is to create the largest library of electrical engineering at one place.
Project leader, Igor Mušćet, mech. ing. i.muscet@tesla.rs. All suggestions are welcome.
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topics: geography, Constantine the Great, HISTORY, Constantinople/Istanbul; jump to dispatch
Rider Notes: February 24-26, 1998
Food of the Day: El basti
El basti was one of the delicacies that we enjoyed while in Istanbul. A chunk of stewed lamb meat cooked inside a potato-filled dough and smothered in gravy, it was perfect for the chilly afternoon "snack" some of us needed.
Person of the Day: Emperor Constantine
Istanbul was known as Constantinople from 324 AD until the 20th century. It got its name from Roman Emperor Constantine, the man most responsible for having placed it at the center of western world history for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Constantine the Great was son of one of the Roman co-emperors who came to power after Diocletian quit his throne. When Constantine's father died, Constantine's loyal troops proclaimed him emperor. For the next twenty years, however, Constantine had to fight rivals for the throne. He triumphed as sole ruler in 324.
With total control over the empire, he made many administrative reforms. He also ordered the building of Constantinople on the site of ancient Byzantium. Constantinople would become one of the most spectacular cities in the world.
Constantine also made his mark as the first Roman patron of Christianity. In his early life, Constantine had been a solar henotheist, that is, he believed in the Roman sun god, Sol, as the earthly representation of a higher power. However, in 312, Constantine claimed to have had a vision of Christ who then helped him win a key military victory. Constantine subsequently reversed the Roman policies of Christian persecution and went so far as to encourage the installation of Christianity as a practicing religion in his new city. He converted to Christianity on his deathbed in 337 AD. Constantine also left his mark with minted coins that were the currency until the 15th century!
For a brief history of Istanbul, continue reading. Otherwise, return to wherever you were.
Istanbul was first established around 1000 BC as a small settlement known as Semista. This grew into a fishing village, called Lygos, on the European side of the Bosporus (see Place of the Day) and was matched later by a village called Chalcedon on the Asian side. In 657 BC, some Greek colonists led by a man named Byzas, established their city, Byzantium, where Lygos was. Byzantium became and remained part (and even capital) of the Roman Empire until 1453 AD when it fell to the Ottomans. Along the way, it had different names and saw more history than most cities.
When, after a civil war, Roman Emperor Septimus Severus rebuilt the Byzantium he had sacked in 196 AD, he renamed it Augusta Antonia. Later, in 324, after Emperor Diocletian abdicated, Constantine struggled to power and united the whole empire. He also committed himself to rebuilding Byzantium/Augusta Antonia and renamed the new city Constantinople, after himself. This he made his capital instead of Rome. His empire became known as the Byzantine Empire.
Two hundred years later, the Byzantine Empire was at its greatest. Under Emperor Justinian (527-565), the empire, with Constantinople as its capital, grew to majestic heights. Justinian's greatest contribution to the city was the magnificent Aya Sofia, or Church of Holy Wisdom, which still stands today. For more than 1000 years, it was the greatest church in the world, and it is arguably still one of the world's greatest buildings.
By the 1450s, the Byzantine Empire had all but crumbled and the emperor held little more than the fortified city of Constantinople. It was like an island in a sea called the Ottoman Empire, a Muslim power that had developed and been consolidated over eight centuries. In 1453, the city finally fell to the Ottomans after a dramatic siege led by Mehmet II, or Mehmet the Conqueror.
Mehmet, who saw himself as successor to a great line of rulers (including Constantine and Justinian), rebuilt the city as a Muslim capital. Two of Mehmet's lasting contributions are the Blue Mosque, challenging the Aya Sofia for prominence of place in the city's old center, and Topkapi Palace, his magnificent royal residence. This tradition of building was continued by Suleiman the Magnificent who added many more mosques, including Istanbul's largest, the Süleymaniye. Suleiman the Magnificent was the same man responsible for reinforcing the great walls that currently enclose Jerusalem's Old City.
However, as with so many other great empires, the Ottomans declined too. By the 19th century, Constantinople (its name was not changed to Istanbul until 1930) was no longer what it had been. In the 20th century, after World War I and Atatürk's decision to move Turkey's capital to Ankara, Istanbul lost some of its importance. It nevertheless remains today as Turkey's largest city and port, its business and cultural center, and its greatest attraction.
As our Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit for Turkey so aptly puts it:
"Easier to live in than Cairo or Beirut, more attractive than Tel Aviv, much more in touch with the Islamic world than Athens, it is fast becoming the 'capital' of the eastern Mediterranean again."
Place of the Day: Sea of Marmara
Dividing European Turkey (and Europe) from Anatolian Turkey (and Asia) (see also Tech Fact of the Day) is an elegant 277-km- (172-mi-) long sea called the Sea of Marmara. Pinched on both ends by areas where the two shore lines come close together - the Bosporus Strait in the north and the Dardanelles Strait in the south - the Sea of Marmara is the important shipping lane through which Black Sea-to-Mediterranean Sea (and vice versa) traffic moves.
Until 1973, when the first bridge was built across it just north of Istanbul, the famously difficult currents of this often-tempestuous stretch of water kept marauding armies from making too much progress in one direction or another. For example, during the First Crusade of the 11th century, the Crusaders made it across the relatively narrow Bosporus only with the aid of Byzantine Emperor Alexius whose ships and sailors provided safe and skillful conduct. Without his consent, who knows what might have happened?
The Sea of Marmara takes its name from the largest island found in its waters.
The name Bosporus is Greek for "ford of the ox." Myth has it that the maiden Io swam the strait after being changed into a heifer.
The Dardanelles are also prominent in Greek legend. The name by which it was known in antiquity, Hellespont, is believed to come from Helle, who drowned in the strait having fallen from the back of the ram Chrysomallus.
Ethan, Anthony and Padraic crossed the Sea of Marmara with relative ease (in the safe belly of a modern-day ferry) when they took the train-ferry Marmaris "express" between Izmir and Istanbul. While it wasn't exactly an express, it was a welcome sea journey that completed Padraic and Ethan's catalogue of different kinds of transport in Turkey. Once on the boat, they could boast having been on a plane, a train, a tram, a boat, all forms of automobiles (bus [big and mini], a van, a taxi), and, of course, a bike all while on Turkish territory.
Group Dispatch, February 24-26
What seems like two weeks ago, you left Ethan, Padraic and Anthony in Fethiye. Actually, in an unusual time-warped way, it was only yesterday. As some of you may have noticed, the guys were traveling the length of the Mediterranean coast at the same time the ladies were traveling up the Aegean. So, while you have lived the Aegean experience, the guys haven't moved from Fethiye since their last dispatch, which was, well, yesterday. And now, since Corinne and andrEa have arrived safely in Istanbul, it's time to bring the boys in as well, and reunite the group of five... which hasn't been a fivesome since the 8th of December.
So... off we go to Fethiye, a city back on the southern coast at the dividing line between Mediterranean and Aegean Turkey.
Having completed the southern sprint of 762 km (473 mi) in 8 days of cycling (10 days total) through dazzling and difficult countryside, the three guys decided to zip via bus over territory already covered by the ladies, but also take in a few of the more famous "unmissable" landmarks, like the ruins at Ephesus, the Artemision (or Temple of Artemis), and the city of Izmir.
A first bus quickly brought us to the road up from Marmaris that Corinne and andrEa had taken two weeks earlier after their boat from Rhodes. We looked out at the tremendous hill that the ladies had climbed and, at first, were jealous, but later, as the length, elevation, and then absence of reward became perfectly clear, heaved a sigh of relief. Through Mugla we continued, and then were dropped off at the crossroads just south of Milas. A short 5-km (3-mi) ride through Milas put us on a bus to Söke and there we stopped.
Söke is one of quite a few towns on the Aegean tourist route that seem to have escaped the maddening wave of development. There were not many hotels from which to choose (although we found a friendly one that was clean and cheap), and not much gastronomic variety (although, after a long search, we found a fine restaurant at the end of a dark alley and long, dimly lit staircase). And the rest? Well, to be perfectly honest, we didn't really look for anything else. We had work to do.
[Meanwhile, Corinne and andrEa had arrived in Gelibolu, also known as Gallipoli.]
Up early on Wednesday (chat 'n' debate day), we headed out of town and tackled our last bit of riding in Turkey, up along the coastal road between Söke and Selçuk. It was entertaining to think that a week earlier, Corinne and andrEa had made the same trip. Just as they had done, we stopped at Ephesus and the Artemision. A few kilometers further, in Selçuk, we paused for a pleasant lunch and a trip through the Ephesus Museum.
The Ephesus Museum, while not huge, is well endowed with fine artifacts and a museumologists clear vision of how they should be presented. Through the indoor rooms and outdoor ethnology displays, visitors are brought into two intriguing and equally fascinating worlds: the ancient one represented today by the ruins outside of town, and the modern one of an excited archaeologist digging through the earth to find and then reconstruct pottery, statues, and whole buildings that reveal a great deal about life in ancient times. Ephesus is particularly noteworthy for appreciators of both worlds in that it has provided and continues to provide a wealth of artifacts and information crucial to our developing understanding of Roman life in the region.
In the mid afternoon, having enjoyed strolling through so much living history both in the museum and at the ruins themselves (here we are on the Arcadian Way , at the Great Theater , at the Celsus Library , and on the Curetes Way ), we abandoned any thought of being able to bike any of the remaining distance to Izmir. Instead we did what we have become too good at doing: finding the bus station and grabbing the first bus to our destination (this time Izmir). We are happy to say that it was our last bus, which was nice, especially since it was a minibus. This has always required actually placing the three bikes on the back seat inside the bus (instead of underneath) and inevitably cost more than we wanted to pay since the bikes occupied seats that could otherwise have been used by paying customers.
Just before dark, we were dropped on the outskirts of town. With the setting sun, we tackled the rush hour traffic all the way to the city center where, after some time, we met Gülden Güllü, the same energetic, resourceful and generous woman who had been so helpful to andrEa and Corinne while they were in Izmir. Gülden stayed with us all evening and was instrumental in guiding us to a cheap pension, an Internet caf� from which to chat 'n' debate, and dinner. Our hats off to Gülden, the fastest walker in the Mediterranean, for having helped BikeAbout every step of the way in Izmir.
[Meanwhile, Corinne and andrEa were just arriving in Istanbul...]
Early the next morning, the guys were on their bikes and at the train station, ready to get themselves and their steeds on the Marmaris Express, the only train service to Istanbul. Actually, it's a train-and-boat service, with the train going as far as Bandirma, located on the shores of the Sea of Marmara (see Place of the Day) and a ferry taking us from there to the European side of Istanbul.
The train trip through scenic hills and wide valleys was remarkable only for its speed. Or, actually, lack thereof. While comfortable, the train made the 350-km (217-mi) journey in a little more than 7 hours. Even flocks of sheep passed us. Really! In fact, when we finally arrived at Bandirma, more than an hour late, we were aggressively hustled over to the boat, which was eager to depart. Some friendly fellows who, without asking, grabbed some of our bags and ran them to the boat (which we could just as easily have done ourselves) turned into avid capitalists once on board and tried to exact outrageous "porter" tips for their one minute of labor. Naturally, we objected.
The boat, yet another in our growing list of ferries and the final piece to the kinds-of-transport puzzle that Padraic and Ethan have now completed in Turkey (see Place of the Day), was comfortable and pretty much uneventful. Padraic and Anthony worked for all 4½ hours while Ethan, computerless, read, roamed the boat , and pondered the waters of the Sea of Marmara.
The final approach to Istanbul on the boat is probably the best way to approach Istanbul: from the water. On the edge of the horizon, cutting through the dark, lights appeared like a low, faint yellowish haze. The closer we got, the clearer they got, until the building they illuminated took shape: the lithe, almost gravity-defying splendor of ten minarets, six belonging to the famous Blue Mosque and four to the world-renowned Aya Sofia. These two buildings, dwarfing all else, are so magnificent, so appealing, so impossible not to appreciate that even the Turkish passengers (some of whom must have seen the spectacle many times before) were struck silent.
Ethan could not help think that this was the vision beheld by travelers who, throughout the centuries, have made the trip to or through this world class city on the shores of the Bosporus Straits. Of course, a hundred years ago, the minarets were not lit, but during the day, the skyline of towering towers and heavy but floating bulbous domes surrounded by homes and palaces all protected by practically unbreachable ramparts must have been, well, just as breathtaking.
[For a brief history of Istanbul, click here.]
At the boat dock, we were met by andrEa and Corinne... and a new friend, Turgut. Corinne and andrEa had spent the better part of their day making phone calls and working on their dispatches. But now, it was chilly and they had been waiting for more than an hour. They sent us off to the Yücelt Interyouth Hostel, at the very foot of the enormous 1500-year-old Aya Sofia we had just seen from afar. If it is possible to imagine, it was even more incredible up close.
After the guys had deposited all their belongings, the others joined us at the hostel and, five again for the first time since Gaza, we went off to dinner, storytelling, and planning for the new challenges ahead.
However, our reunion was not as festive as it might have been. In the back of everyone's mind, but unvoiced at dinner since we were in the company of our friend, Turgut, were thoughts concerning the group composition. Since ongoing fundraising efforts have proven unfruitful (especially since we are all on the road and unable to maintain the constant vigil required when raising money) and the BikeAbout budget that got us this far has been almost completely exhausted, Ethan had to make the difficult decision of asking that the group of five riders be reduced to three. Basically, there isn't enough money to continue providing for all five people. So, Ethan asked Padraic and Anthony as one group, and Corinne and andrEa as another to sit down and decide which one of the two in each group would continue. It was torturous to Ethan to have to request that this be done, and he knew that the discussions within the two pairs and the final group meeting would be even harder for everyone, especially those who would be unable to continue.
With burdened thoughts, the guys returned to the hostel and the women to the apartment of a friend located on the Anatolian (Asian) side of Istanbul.
Questions? Ask Ethan !


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Baskin Financial Services Inc. lowered its stake in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) by 1.0% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 44,474 shares of the investment management company's stock after selling 462 shares during the period. Baskin Financial Services Inc.'s holdings in Goldman Sachs Group were worth $8,539,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Capital Financial Planning LLC purchased a new stake in Goldman Sachs Group in the fourth quarter valued at $26,000. Toth Financial Advisory Corp raised its position in Goldman Sachs Group by 100.0% in the first quarter. Toth Financial Advisory Corp now owns 140 shares of the investment management company's stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares during the period. Liberty Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in Goldman Sachs Group in the fourth quarter valued at $29,000. Loeb Partners Corp purchased a new stake in Goldman Sachs Group in the fourth quarter valued at $33,000. Finally, Riverview Trust Co purchased a new stake in Goldman Sachs Group in the fourth quarter valued at $33,000. 70.11% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on the company. TheStreet upgraded Goldman Sachs Group from a "c+" rating to a "b-" rating in a report on Tuesday, February 5th. Oppenheimer boosted their price objective on Goldman Sachs Group from $257.00 to $272.00 and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a report on Thursday, January 17th. Societe Generale downgraded Goldman Sachs Group from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Friday, February 1st. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Goldman Sachs Group from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Wednesday, April 10th. Finally, Credit Suisse Group reiterated an "outperform" rating and issued a $250.00 price objective (down previously from $258.00) on shares of Goldman Sachs Group in a report on Monday, December 24th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have assigned a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company. The stock has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $250.08.
In other news, EVP Dane E. Holmes sold 1,489 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $198.31, for a total transaction of $295,283.59. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Insiders own 1.41% of the company's stock.
GS traded down $7.93 on Monday, hitting $199.91. 6,525,510 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 3,291,764. Goldman Sachs Group Inc has a twelve month low of $151.70 and a twelve month high of $262.25. The stock has a market capitalization of $74.39 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.91, a PEG ratio of 1.31 and a beta of 1.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.84, a current ratio of 0.92 and a quick ratio of 0.92.
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, January 16th. The investment management company reported $6.04 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $5.15 by $0.89. Goldman Sachs Group had a return on equity of 13.84% and a net margin of 28.92%. The firm had revenue of $8.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $7.48 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $5.68 EPS. Goldman Sachs Group's revenue for the quarter was down .5% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts anticipate that Goldman Sachs Group Inc will post 23.05 earnings per share for the current year.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, June 27th. Investors of record on Thursday, May 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.85 per share. This represents a $3.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.70%. This is a boost from Goldman Sachs Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.80. Goldman Sachs Group's payout ratio is presently 12.66%.
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HMS Thunder Child is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds whilst protecting a refugee rescue fleet of civilian vessels. It has been suggested that Thunder Child was based on HMS Polyphemus, which was the sole torpedo ram to see service with the Royal Navy from 1881 to 1903.  However, given that Thunder Child is described by Wells as a huge ship with twin funnels and guns sufficiently powerful to destroy a Martian tripod with a single hit, it's unlikely that the diminutive single-funnelled and lightly armed Polyphemus was actually meant to be the model for the fictional ship.

Fictional description
In the novel Wells gives only a rough description of the ship. After the narrator talks about his brother, he introduces us to the Thunder Child in chapter 17, describing her thus: "About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad, very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child". A few paragraphs later, it is stated that "It was the torpedo ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping". The battle takes place off the mouth of the River Blackwater, Essex, where people from London are escaping the Martian offensive. Three Martian fighting-machines having approached the vessels from the seaward side. HMS Thunder Child signals to the main fleet and steams at full speed towards the Martians without firing. The Martians, whom the narrator suggests are unfamiliar with large warships (having come from an arid planet) at first use only a gas attack. When this fails to have any effect, they employ their Heat-Ray, inflicting fatal damage on the Thunder Child. The ship continues to attack, bringing down one of the fighting machines with its gun, even as it succumbs. The flaming wreckage of the ironclad finally rams into a second fighting-machine, destroying it. When the black smoke and super-heated steam banks dissipate, both the Thunder Child and the third fighting-machine are gone. The attack by Thunder Child occupies the Martians long enough for three Royal Navy warships of the main Channel Fleet to arrive.

Adaptations
HMS Thunder Child is commonly omitted from some adaptations or replaced outright with technology more appropriate to the updated settings.

In Orson Welles's famous 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber replaces Thunder Child; it collides with a fighting-machine after being critically damaged by its Heat-Ray.

In the George Pal 1953 film adaptation, the last-ditch defense against the Martians is an atomic bomb dropped by a Thunder Child replacement, a Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing jet bomber; the atomic bomb proves useless, because the Martian fighting-machines are protected by individual force fields.

The first adaptation to feature HMS Thunder Child was Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of ''The War of the Worlds'', which was released in 1978 and retains the novel's Victorian setting, characters, and situations. The album features the song, "Thunder Child". The album's cover art depicts a Canopus-class battleship fighting a Martian tripod. This version of Thunder Child is based upon the naval painting depicting the Battle of Coronel (1 November 1914). The War of the Worlds was written as an account of fictional 1897 events and the lead ship of the class, HMS Canopus, did not enter service until 1899. The vessel in the painting is therefore a member of the Majestic-class, like HMS Mars commissioned in 1896.

The 1999 video game adaptation of Jeff Wayne's musical features a level revolving around Thunder Child. The player is placed in control of the ironclad and must sail it down a river while using its cannons to destroy Martian machines and settlements; the level ends in a climactic confrontation with Tempest, a powerful Martian war machine.

In Steven Spielberg's 2005 film adaptation, War of the Worlds, contemporary American military forces use tanks and attack helicopters against the alien Tripods, again without success. Earlier in the film, civilian ferries trying to escape from the Tripods are trapped and easily sunk, with no intervention by a warship.

The low-budget direct-to-DVD Pendragon feature adaptation of the novel, released in 2005, uses poor CGI to portray HMS Thunder Child as a Royal Navy .

In the BBC's 2019 TV miniseries, the main characters join up again on the Essex coast, where many small boats are gathering  civilians to ferry them out to anchored ships. A Martian Tripod appears and several warships open fire on it with their main batteries. Most of the warships are at quite a distance offshore, but one, which could be Thunder Child, is much closer. The Tripod is hit on one its the legs and in its command cupola, and immediately collapses. A second Martian machine appears on the beach, chasing the protagonists. Before it can activate its Heat-Ray, it is struck by multiple naval artillery shells. It falls forward, narrowly missing crushing the protagonists. As in H.G. Wells' original novel, the refugees manage to escape, while none of the warships are shown being destroyed by the Tripods.

The 2013 science fiction novel The Last Days of Thunder Child, written by C. A. Powell, is set in Victorian Britain of 1898.

See also
 List of fictional ships
 The War of the Worlds
 H. G. Wells

References

External links

Fictional ships of the Royal Navy
The War of the Worlds

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Two Canadian and two U.S. partners in INTERACT (International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic) open a call for transnational access for European-based research groups. The access is available to the following research stations: The CEN Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik Research Station and the Kluane Lake Research Station in Canada, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Toolik Field Station and the Barrow Environmental Observatory in Alaska, U.S. The access to the Canadian stations is supported by CEN and AINA, and the access to the Alaskan stations is supported by the U.S. NSF.
The support includes access to station facilities and support for travel and freight costs. The research should be conducted in 2015.
Research groups where the group leader and majority of the group members are from EU Member State or Associated State are eligible to apply for access.
E-mail your research proposal (link to application instructions) and CV by 31st March, 2015, to INTERACT Transnational Access Coordinator Hannele Savela (hannele.savela(at)oulu.fi). The evaluation of the proposals will be conducted by the INTERACT Transnational Access Board in consultation with the field stations. The evaluation will be based on scientific merit, feasibility and appropriateness. The applicants will be notified about the grant decisions by 15th May, 2015.
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Centre d'études nordiques (Centre for Northern Studies, CEN) offers one annual grant for research at the CEN Hudson Bay field station at Whapmagoostui-Kuujjuarapik. The grant of 5000 € in maximum includes open access to station facilities and should be used for travel, daily or weekly accommodation rates at the station, and meals.ÂÂ The station is located on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay at the maritime limit of James Bay. The station surroundings are defined by the terrestrial boundary between taiga and tundra. Discontinuous or scattered permafrost occurs throughout the region and is degrading rapidly. Current research conducted at the station include work on biodiversity and dynamics of northern aquatic ecosystems, impacts of thawing permafrost in the context of global warming, wetland paleoecology, restoration of vegetation in degraded sites, and research on mercury dynamics in relation to air, precipitation and snow.
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When January rolls around most of us feel a little jaded. The months of short days and cold winds, too much central heating, too much coffee and alcohol and junk foods can leave us feeling worn out – inside and out. Our skin can look dull and lifeless and we just…lack that get up and go.
For many of us, the go-to fix is a spa weekend or a new moisturiser but this isn't a real solution. It can also be very expensive, unless someone was generous enough to buy us one or both of these treats for Christmas, of course. The best remedy for New Year blues and dull skin is a bit of TLC, some extra sleep, water and time. These treatments are also very cheap – if not free – and so you'll get on the good side of finance experts Creditfix!
Just stop and think for a few minutes before you hit the shops. What have you already got in your box of tricks? The chances are that you still have some of the cold weather moisturiser that you bought last year. If you really feel you could do with a bit of colour on your face, mix a blob of foundation with your usual moisturiser. If you're a petroleum-free lip salve fiend, search the bottom of your bag, last season's bag, your drawers and your bathroom cabinet. There will be a half-used pot or tube somewhere. Make a commitment to use up all your leftover winter products before you think about buying more.
This is age-old advice, but it works. The trick is to sip water throughout the day, as downing a pint of H2O in one go might be counter-productive. Invest in a fancy fruit infuser bottle if you find plain water boring and try to make a habit of drinking small amounts of water – 50ml at a time – throughout the day. Your skin should be clearer and you should feel less sleepy and irritable.
The post-Christmas feeling is a lethal combo of too much alcohol and junk food as well as too little sleep, all combined with the horrors of returning to work. Even if you can only manage a couple of early nights in the first half of January, fit them in. Getting a good night's sleep is vital to your skin's health. Alcohol actually interrupts sleep so although you might drop off pretty quickly after a few drinks, it's not good quality sleep you're getting. If you can manage two or three booze-free early nights in a row, you'll wake up looking and feeling your best.
Have a look at your loyalty card balances to see if you can treat yourself to a new scrub or a fancy new shimmery moisturiser. Make a pledge, however, to not pay for it unless it's seriously discounted. If you can bag it with loyalty points, then you're getting the year off to a great start.